The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
AL PACINOMy own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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